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~ SEED COLLECTIONS - great as gifts ~

Here
are some nice selections of seed that go well together, and as ever, they all come with growing
instructions, seedsaving information, and usually recipes too.

We fold the collections up separately from the rest of your order,
as a small packet containing the seeds. This unfolds when opened with
growing instructions, notes and seedsaving information printed inside.

They make excellent gifts - we can even send them direct
to the recipient if you wish - just let us know and we'll leave the
receipt out, and mark the packet 'Gift from xxxx - do not open before
dd/mm/yy'. (Or any other message you want.)

We try to avoid substitutions but occasionally we may have to swap
a packet for something equally interesting - especially towards the
end of the season.

We pack and send out orders twice a week. For gifts being
sent direct, please send in your order at least 2 weeks beforehand,
just to be absolutely sure it will arrive in time.

GIFT ORDERS:
If you are ordering as a gift for someone, there are free options you
can add to your order, including a 'don't open before' date on the package.
See the link 'is your order a gift?' in the header of this page.
PLEASE NOTE: you need to add these gift mailing options to your order before checkout.

The "Beginner Gardener" Seed Collection
A careful selection of selection of vegetables that are ideal for the first-time vegetable grower. We've chosen these as our most reliable and least fussy to grow, so you should get good results even if you are a newcomer to vegetable growing.

What you get:

Flashy Butter Oak lettuce

Giant Red carrot

Sanguina beetroot

Verde di italia courgette

Stupice tomato

Minidor bean

Oskar pea

Wizard broad bean

Fordhook Giant chard

Perfect choice of easy varieties for a new gardener, also makes a great gift - Order MC047 - £

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The Beginner Gardener collection includes detailed instructions on the printout that comes with your order.

But, a good gardening book is really an essential if you are a complete newcomer to growing, and there is really only one that we recommend - Grow Your Own Vegetables by Joy Larkcom. This is a brilliant book that will give you the confidence and basic information you need as you start out, but has enough detail that you will keep referring to it for years to come.

"Grow Your Own Vegetables" Book: Order BkGY -
£

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Our wonderful Salad Seed Collection

This is a nice set of quick growing and reliable salad plants - there's so much more to salad than lettuce! We are always trialling new salad varieties to find the best ones for sowing and cropping throughout the year. Many of these will be familiar to you, others may be new, but all are delicious and very easy to grow.

It is particularly good value as we have included a packet of the Mortons Secret Mix Lettuce, with hundreds of different strains of lettuce in it, so you get a vast amount of variety in your salads from just a single packet.

They've been chosen sow that you can sow throughout the year, from spring through to autumn (see individual packets for sowing times and instructions).

If you like salad, this will really give you a whole new set of incredible textures and colours for your bowl.

Order MC042 - £

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The 2014 Oriental Explorer Collection

For the more adventurous, and those who want to try something new, this is a newly-expanded seed collection of 9 different oriental vegetables. The previous version was so sucessful we've added a few extra of our favourite oriental greens for the new season.

They come folded in a neat green paper packet, together with notes, and we've selected them not only for their good results in our UK trials, but also to illustrate the different families of vegetable greens grown in the East.

An easy way to try a whole new range of vegetables, used for salads or as cooked greens - they all do really well here in the UK, and we grow lots for our own use every year.

Order MC045 - £

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The "Feed The Family" Seed Collection

Put together with an emphasis on really good value for money, and also value for space (in terms of making a lot of food from a small area), this reliable collection is designed to provide a good variety of food from the garden all year round, including in the difficult 'hungry gap' months.

All will grow well outdoors in the majority of the UK, though in particularly cool areas the tomatoes would do best in a greenhouse or tunnel.

We have chosen our most reliable & long cropping varieties, trying to find things that give a really good yield but aren't too expensive - and included full instructions with the collection, to help you make sure there is always something for the cook to harvest!

Some of the very best we have, 14 different packets with instructions.

Sanguina beetroot

Giant Limousin turnip

Aquadulce longpod broad bean (or Wizard, depending on availability)

Red Ursa kale

Fordhook Giant chard

Touchon carrot

Bleu de Solaise leek

Australian Yellowleaf lettuce

Sobi chinese salad/cooking green

Joan swede

Czar runner bean

Stupice tomato

Purple Ukraine tomato

Striato di Napoli courgette

Order MC046 - £

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The Real Seed Catalogue is produced by The Real Seed Collection Ltd , a not-for-profit company limited
by guarantee.
~ Company No 5924934 ~ VAT No 841181938 ~ DEFRA registered Seed Merchant No 7289 ~

Our Unique Structure: Because we have no shareholders. the main aim of the company is not to make huge profits, but instead to supply great seeds to home gardeners at reasonable prices, and to educate people about home seed-saving. As part of our ethical policy, all staff are paid the same hourly wage, including the directors.

Our Unique Guarantee:We have spent years trying to find the best varieties for you to grow. We think these are the best seeds you can sow, and we really hope that you enjoy growing your vegetables from them. We will immediately refund or replace if you are in any way less than delighted with them, even including the flavour of the resulting crop!

Gardeners Should Save their Own Seed: Because none of these seeds are hybrids,you can save your own seed for future use: there's no need to buy new each year. Saving your own is easy. You will get great seed, and great vegetables adapted to your local conditions. Do have a go - read the seedsaving instructions we provide with every order, and also on this site. ~ We have sent out over 104,000 sets of free home seed-saving instructions!~

Our Seed Club:Due to really daft seed laws, many of our fantastic vegetable seeds can only be supplied to members of our Seed Club, because they are not on the EU-approved list of permitted vegetable varieties! But membership costs just one penny per annum.
When we process your order, you will be charged a penny for a year's Seed Club Membership. For more details see our terms and conditions.

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